Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf
If it fits on a bookshelf, it fits here.
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Saw the first episode of Showtime’s The Franchise last night. Not much to say, really. The focus was Ozzie Guillen (who was suspended early on for his remarks about Fidel Castro), closer Heath Bell’s woes, and the team’s overall ups and downs over the first three months of the season. (Warning: the program contains lots […]
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Came across this quirky animation while doing some Ryan Braun research. Enjoy. And don’t make a “thing” out of it, either, ‘kay? It’s a tad out of date, since prince Fielder is no longer a teammate. This is one of a number of “sports friends” animations. Other baseball “collaborations” include Jose Reyes and David Wright; […]
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(Because you can put sheet music on your bookshelf.) So first they said that Jose Reyes had sustained a hamstring injury in Saturday’s game and we held our collective breath. Then they said it was a Grade One, the “best” kind of that injury you can have. He’d miss the Sunday game and, given the […]
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When did Fred Wilpon become George Steinbrenner? Perhaps the pressure of the season — with all the Madoff business, the rumors about being forced to sell the team, etc. — have finally gotten to the Mets owner. at least that’s what some might say given this story in The New Yorker. I have not read […]
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Amazing where you’ll find empty bags from chips and whatnot. Wise Cheese Doodles, for example, right there on the bookshelf. Next to the bottle of Sprite. Sorry, honey. I’ll take care of that right away. I only got it because Jose Reyes is on the bag. (The depiction of Reyes is horrible (right), yet I […]
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In my most recent "day job," I was the sports and features editor for a weekly New Jersey newspaper, where I hosted another blog. Busy, busy, busy.
I did a profile piece on the award-winning cartoonist Arnold Roth and he was nice enough to "immortalize" me.
My article on the later biographies of Babe Ruth appears in
My article on the Mets’ 1969 postseason appears in
Profiles of several Jewish baseball figures appear in
